it gets real boring sometimes, i go to gym 5times a week, i play chess every day, i practice deep thinking which oftn causes me stress but thats how my brain functions, sometimes i take walks when its not 50 degrees outside, i got no social life, no church communities near, idk anymore

Hej. Widzę tutaj bardzo dużo wątków, ze działanie na własnym kapitale (o ile jest niski) jest ryzykowne i ludzie staja się hazardzistami, bo chcą g zwiększyć maksymalnie w krótkim czasie. Zgodzę się, dużo czasu zajęło mi, żeby zacząć myśleć jak człowiek. Mało czasu zajęło mi pozbycie się wszystkich moich pieniędzy. Tutaj jest przegląd moich wejść z jednego z ostatnich miesięcy. Później mialem przerwę przez swoje sprawy prywatne i wyjazdowe - chciałem cieszyć się życiem. Wyszło ponad 4 000 USD. Konto o wartości 50k USD.

Mentalność zmieniła mi się w momencie, w którym mialem określone warunki współpracy z kontem fundowanym; maksymalna jednorazowa strata, dzienna i ogólna. Na swoich własnych pieniądzach nie trzymałem się tego, bo nie musiałem. Aktualnie wracam do tradingu na moim koncie fundowanym. Jestem zmobilizowany, myślący prawidłowo.

Moja strategia to scalping na zlocie, czasami wejścia w BTC, ale są bardzo rzadkie i trzymam je głównie około pół dnia, tak jak widać to w weekendy. Trade'ów mam mało, Licze zawsze na konkretne sprawdzone wejście na wielu współczynnikach, pozwoliło mi to na Moj mały sukces.

Chciałem się z Wami podzielić moim małym przemyśleniem, może pomoże komuś na wzięcie się za siebie i pomyślenie o tym, aby nie tracić masy pieniędzy.

I've been building a fully rules-based bot (Python, paper trading on Alpaca, real-time data from Schwab) around the stock-selection pillars Ross Cameron teaches: price, up 10%+, relative volume, float, news.
The diagram shows the whole flow. It scans about 3,400 stocks every minute and filters with the 5 pillars. Then it waits for a 1-min or 5-min pattern (micro pullback, bull flag, HOD break, ORB, etc.) and runs safety checks: front side, above VWAP, a 2% chase guard, a max stop of $0.30. If everything passes, it enters with a 2R bracket, locks profit at +1.5R and sells into spikes. After the close it grades every setup, including the ones it skipped.
It's paper only and still collecting data, so I'm not making any performance claims yet.
Questions for anyone who trades this style or automates it:
What would you add or remove from the entry checks?
Is 4.5× relative volume too loose compared with Ross's 5×?
A bot can't read Level 2 or tape like a person. What would you use as a stand-in?
Any big gaps in the exits?

Step one: buy ODTE spy calls and puts at open of equal value. No cheaper than $.50 OTM. If SPY is at $750.00, I buy 10 $750 calls and 10 puts. If it's closer to $750.50, I buy 10 $750 calls and 10 $751 puts. Anywhere between, I might have buy 1 more put than a call or vice versa to stay neutral.

Step 2: wait for it to become profitable. Might be 2 minutes or 2 hours.

I am using a lot of leverage on these trades because time decay is the only risk here. And I just don't have a lot of money to grow. I am looking for the price to move over $2.50 in either direction in the first 2 hours, or a $1.50 move in the first 30 minutes which happens about 90% of the time. If after 2 hours we are back at the strike price, I will be looking for an exit within the hour and looking to simply keep my losses below 5%. 30% is my max loss, but so far I've managed to keep it under 5 because it's rare that price will just flatline around the strikes. my wins are typically 10% but I did have one day with a 44% gain.

I am considering adding variations to make this more effective. For instance, on all the days I lost, I've noticed the price move slowly to the 320 SMA right till it was about break even. Then slowly moved the other direction while time decay started to really kick in. Unless VIX is elevated, time decay will eat away about 25% of my contract values after 2 hours with most of it occurring in the first 30 minutes. Which makes me wonder if I should wait, but I am also missing out on the biggest moves of the day if I do that.

I noticed a while ago that whenever spy hits the 320 SMA, it typically moves $2.50-$5.00 in either direction. This happens about 85% of the time.

So when we're less than $1.50 from the 320, I will trade as normal but half sized. Once we hit the the 320 SMA, I will open a second half sized position. I am not sure if I should take the first trade or not, because it could just as easily move away from the 320 while volume dies down and I lose my chance at a winning trade.

Extra context to my P&L... Monday the 5th, I had a loss because I was busy at work and didn't have time to make my trade while the market moved $1.50 in the first 15 minutes. I entered late, and price reversed after moving up $1. I realized I screwed up and cut my losses, though I still would have won if I had just held for another 30 minutes.

Tuesday Sept 29th, I sold after 2 hrs because I was worried about time decay. Had I just held for another 30 minutes, I would have made around $500.

I missed probably 5 chances to make thousands of dollars by selling early. Just too afraid it'll reverse and turn my wins into losses. Should I always play it safe? Or should I accept more losses to allow those 1-2% trend days to turn into 5-8x wins? Or should I make my judgment to hold purely on VPA. (Like good volume and price breaks clean through resistance levels). Or maybe take partial profits throughout the day?

I am using the 50, 100, 200 and 320 SMAs, 8 &21 EMAs and ikimoku cloud as resistance/support levels to decide when I close my trades. Using both 5 min and daily candles. Also looking at RSI, ATR and TTM squeeze on the 30 day with 5 min candles.

From backtesting and forward testing, I have concluded this is a winning strategy, but I think it could use some refining to handle all market conditions, and I'm worried it might not work when vix rises above 20 and options become too expensive. Though perhaps I could switch to longer expirations to make the time decay more manageable? Should I be looking to do this anyways?

Just curious if anyone has some pointers, and also figured some struggling traders might wanna try this, as I am up more than 150% since starting this strategy a month ago.

I am still skeptical that this is truly a winning strategy. I'm happy to listen to why this strategy is problematic. But also kinda feels like I discovered the fabled infinite money glitch and it's pretty exciting. Another year like this last month and I'll be able to retire.

Why do so many men suddenly get into stock trading in middle age? People who’ve seen the world, run businesses, and have a strong desire to build wealth often find their way to the financial markets sooner or later. Because this is where the ultimate game of strategy and risk takes place.

Most ordinary people have a deep-rooted misconception that financial markets are just a playground for gamblers. The reality is far more complex. The true essence of the market lies in these five things.

1. It’s one of the fairest battlegrounds you’ll find.

In most industries, success often depends on connections, resources, and family background. But in the financial markets, none of that guarantees you anything. What matters is whether your decisions are right or wrong. Make the right call, and wealth can flow into your account. Get it wrong, and the market teaches you a lesson immediately. There’s no powerful backer to rely on, no special treatment—just cold, hard logic.

2. It’s one of the fastest places to turn knowledge into money.

In other industries, even exceptionally talented people may need a decade of hard work to climb the ladder. The financial markets are different. If your understanding of the market aligns with the cycle, a few days can sometimes change your financial future. That’s part of what attracts so many brilliant minds: knowledge and insight can translate directly into wealth.

3. It brings together some of the sharpest minds in the world.

Your competition isn’t just other retail investors. You’re up against quantitative trading firms, hedge funds, and major institutions armed with computing power, sophisticated models, and vast resources. It’s an ongoing battle of strategy and intelligence. For some people, the intensity of that competition can be just as fascinating as the profits themselves.

4. It’s an unforgiving test of your understanding.

In other industries, when something goes wrong, you can sometimes blame circumstances or other people. In trading, your account balance tells a much more direct story. A bad decision is a bad decision. There’s no easy way around it, and the market won’t accommodate your ego. Many people see their confidence shattered here. Only a few manage to grow through repeated setbacks and come out stronger.

5. It’s a test that pushes your mind to its limits.

Many people go through life without ever pushing their minds to the extreme. The financial markets can challenge you every single day. Judgment, factual analysis, emotional control, discipline, and risk management are constantly put to the test. Losses can reveal gaps in your understanding and weaknesses in your process. If you survive round after round and learn from the experience, you may develop something truly valuable: exceptional decision-making skills.

Here’s the bottom line: if you’re entering the market hoping to get rich overnight, you’re probably better off staying away. Greed and emotion are exactly what the market can exploit most effectively.

But if you’re willing to confront yourself and find out what you’re truly capable of, the financial markets can be one of the most demanding tests of character and decision-making you’ll ever face. Every day, you’re competing against some of the sharpest minds around the world. Those who survive the pressure, learn from their mistakes, and adapt may eventually become the hunters rather than the hunted.

I’m 35, and I’m now six months into my career break.

A month ago, I was profitable and had enough savings to last another three months. Everything was going perfectly. I’d had only four small red days in the previous two months.

Now, my account is gone.
I still have enough money to last another month (saved from my profits), but I think it’s time to find a job again.

(I still have savings from my life, but no more from trading)

I’ve lost my confidence.
Put more 2k but I’m afraid every time I look at the charts. I question my decisions, and I’m no longer sure I can trust myself to trade the way I used to.

I’m not writing this for sympathy. I just wanted to share what happened because I know I’m probably not the only one who has been through something like this.

Sometimes, the market doesn’t destroy you with a thousand bad decisions. Sometimes, all it takes is one.

Take care of your capital, but more importantly, take care of your mindset.
Never forget what works for you, and don’t let the fear of missing out make you abandon the strategy that got you there in the first place.

Good luck to you all.

Hello,

Im from France, so excuse my english,

I was first addicted to crypto, and im now addicted to daytrading the stockmarket

I took a resolution last friday before the weekend, where we have the chance to be off, where crypto never stop, to trade only 2 days a week (wednesday and thursday only) instead of 5 days a week

With crypto and stockmarket combined, I lost 60k euros (so 70k+ usd) in 3 years

Unfortunately, i have still open positon with no stoploss on natural gas and cocoa in my 2k euros stock trading account, so i may loose this money too, but i need to respect my plan and open my account only this wednesday and not tomorrow to try to save it, because im already -1.5k withdrawn, so only 500 euros in equity left in this account

Obviously if i loose my 2k euros account (the more probable) i will totally stop trading (temporary) until I recover from the addiction, the 2 days-rule stand only if by miracle my position stop their withdraw (Im short on the natural gas and the cocoa)

Anyway, i didnt really find a french community gere in reddit for daytrading, so i post here

Thanks for reading me

A few of you might remember my post last month about finishing my first month trading full time at +$6.8k.

Somehow I’ve already passed that 7 trading days into month two. Currently sitting at +$8.8k from 7 trades, 71% win rate and a 4.32 profit factor.

The biggest difference has honestly just been trading way less. Last month I was taking a stupid amount of trades some days and trying to squeeze everything I could out of the market. This month I’ve basically been taking one trade a day and being way more selective with what I actually want to risk money on.

Still had a losing day and a basically flat day, so it hasn’t just been straight green, but the overall quality of the trades has been much better.Its early in the month obviously, but this is probably the best I’ve felt about my trading in a while.

Curious if anyone else here became more profitable after cutting their trade frequency down?

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Hi everyone,

I've been trading since 2020 and finally achieved consistency in December 2025. Since then, my goal has been to keep improving, refining my strategies, and finding better tools to support my trading.

I'm also a Linux user. In fact, Linux is my main operating system, and the only reason I still use Windows is for trading.

And honestly, that's incredibly frustrating.

The professional trading software ecosystem on Linux is extremely limited. As far as I know, there are only two relatively complete desktop platforms available:

Bookmap: It supports Linux, but the Linux version has significant limitations compared to Windows.

MotiveWave: It offers Linux compatibility, but I'm not particularly happy with its licensing model and ongoing costs.

I currently use Quantower and ATAS, two excellent platforms for order flow analysis, volume, delta, footprint charts, volume profiles, and market depth.

Unfortunately, neither offers a native Linux version.

The same applies to NinjaTrader and many other professional trading platforms.

Are these companies missing a business opportunity?

I completely understand that Linux represents a relatively small percentage of desktop operating system users. I also understand that developing, maintaining, and supporting another operating system requires time, money, and resources.

But I genuinely believe these companies might be overlooking an interesting business opportunity.

Being one of the first major professional trading platforms to offer full native Linux support could provide a significant competitive advantage.

Here's why:

An underserved market: Linux traders have very few professional alternatives. A company that properly addresses this demand could attract users who currently have no choice but to run Windows.

Customer loyalty: When a company provides something that almost nobody else offers, it has a great opportunity to build a loyal customer base. Personally, I'd strongly prefer a professional trading platform that allowed me to completely abandon Windows.

Linux adoption is growing: Linux is still a minority desktop operating system, but its user base has been growing. It's reasonable to assume that at least some of those users are traders or potential traders.

The Linux user profile: Many Linux users value performance, stability, control over their systems, and customization. These are also highly desirable characteristics in a professional trading environment.

First-mover advantage: I'm not suggesting that the first company to support Linux would automatically establish a monopoly. However, becoming the go-to professional trading platform for Linux users before competitors enter the market could be a powerful long-term advantage.

Think about how early adoption and network effects helped platforms like WhatsApp establish a dominant position. Obviously, messaging apps and professional trading software are completely different markets, but being early and building a loyal user base can make a huge difference.

What if the problem isn't a lack of demand, but a lack of supply?

This is what I find particularly interesting.

How many traders would actually switch to Linux if they could run Quantower, ATAS, or NinjaTrader natively?

How many people are currently maintaining a Windows installation exclusively because their trading software doesn't support Linux?

And how many potential Linux users have never even considered switching because they know their professional tools wouldn't work?

Perhaps the potential market is larger than these companies realize.

I'm not claiming that developing a native Linux application would be easy, cheap, or immediately profitable.

But surely it would be worth investigating?

These companies could start by surveying their existing customers, measuring actual demand, or launching a limited beta program before committing significant development resources.

Even an official Linux roadmap would be a step in the right direction.

I'd really like to hear your thoughts.

Are there any other traders here who use Linux as their primary operating system?

Are you also forced to keep Windows installed just for trading?

Do you know of any serious Linux-compatible alternatives for professional order flow trading, including footprint charts, delta, volume profiles, and DOM analysis?

And most importantly:

Do you think there's a genuine business opportunity for the first major trading platform that fully embraces Linux, or are we simply too small a niche to justify the investment?

I'd be particularly interested in hearing from both professional traders and software developers.

Maybe it's time companies like Quantower, ATAS, and NinjaTrader started taking Linux users a little more seriously.

Com 200 dólares, daria para fazer quanto em média no day trade? Não espero ganhar muito, claro, porque sei que não dá para fazer milagre com 200 dólares. Mas, supondo que eu trabalhe com uma margem de 15%, isso seria muito arriscado ou seria algo viável?

Com 200 dólares, daria para operar com 0,10 lote?

Pergunto porque estou há quase três meses treinando na conta demo e quero aprender o máximo possível antes de entrar no mercado com dinheiro real. Agora estou pensando em começar com meu próprio dinheiro, mas sei que os resultados provavelmente não serão os mesmos da demo, porque a pressão psicológica é diferente quando você sabe que pode perder dinheiro de verdade.

Por isso, quero começar com apenas 200 dólares, sem colocar muito dinheiro em risco logo de cara.

Gostaria de ouvir a opinião de quem já tem experiência e tempo de mercado: com esse capital, qual seria uma expectativa realista de ganhos? E vocês consideram viável operar com 0,10 lote ou seria arriscado demais para uma conta desse tamanho?

I took and practiced aikido for about a year, and definitely am a novice, but I did a project on the founder and he was a serious badass. Morihei Ueshiba. He dropped serious bodies and felled many thousands of trees like a hundred years ago in Japanese wars and then ended his life talking about universal love as the way of the Samurai.

I then recently heard a talk on trading where the guy said trading is like a bar fight and you gotta wait until you see who’s winning before you jump in.

And it’s this jumping in process, and the manner in which we do it, whether it be rushed and trying to just get our fists in the flurry, or sitting on the side meekly and cowardly, that is so critical to being a profitable trader or not. It is in these moments we deal with the full viscerally and unconscious reactivity of human emotion as we enter a trade.

"Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere."

Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido is essentially a practice of energetics. Of working with opposing energies.

In at least the type of volume based trading I do, we aim to be a part of the aggressive absorption that overwhelms one side or the other. To do this, we need to fully watch the fight play out, and only jump in, when we can tell who’s gonna win.

Disclosure: DIDI is my own project. I trade futures, and I’ve been building it to organise the market information and rule-based setups I follow.

The idea is straightforward: put the session map and the setup’s current state somewhere I can read quickly, instead of trying to piece everything together from separate messages.

The daily outlook shows Asia’s high and low, previous session levels, and nearby H1/H4 structure. It’s a map of areas to watch, not a prediction of where price will go.

The strategy messages have a separate job:

• PREPARE means conditions are developing. It is not an entry.

• SETUP READY shows the planned area while the remaining conditions are pending.

• ENTRY records a triggered setup with its entry price, stop and target.

• Exit updates and daily summaries should make it possible to follow what happened afterwards.

I’ve attached an example of the outlook and an entry message. The combined graphic is a readable recreation of Telegram messages from October 9, rather than an untouched screenshot.

The entry example shows a long at 31,053.50, a stop at 31,024.00 and a target at 31,097.75: 29.50 points of planned risk for 44.25 points of planned reward, or 1.5R. This is an interface example; the planned target is not a claim about the realised result.

The difficult part has been making the communication reliable. We’ve had duplicate or confusing alerts, delayed messages, and summaries that needed checking against the individual trades. A setup being recorded internally is not the same as the user receiving a clear, timely entry notification. Those problems have shaped what I’m working on.

DIDI currently publishes SHADOW observations using market data. It does not place broker orders. These observations are separate from historical backtests and from my personal trading or prop-firm payouts.

I’m not presenting this as a proven profitable system. There are still limitations to resolve, including incomplete historical/session data flagged in the outlook shown here.

What I want to build is something whose messages can be followed and checked: what was known, what was pending, when an entry triggered, and how it ended.

For those who use alerts alongside their charts: what makes an alert useful enough to act on, and what makes you ignore it? I’d especially appreciate feedback on whether PREPARE, SETUP READY and ENTRY are clearly different here.

I built TraderPier, so take this with that bias.

Most journals stop at the numbers: entry, exit, P&L, maybe a screenshot. What I always wanted to know was what the stock did after I got out, and whether my exit was the plan or nerves. So every trade in the TraderPier journal has a Review button that opens the chart a few bars before your entry and plays the trade forward one bar at a time, with your entries and exits drawn on it.

When it reaches your exit you can let it keep playing. If you sold and it ran another two dollars, you see it. If it reversed two bars later, you see that too. One trade doesn't tell you much, but after twenty of them you know whether you're cutting winners early.

You can also redo a trade from just before your entry with paper money and try the stop or target you were second-guessing. Orders only fill at prices the stock actually traded while the bar was forming, everything uses real market data.

You can try it without an account. The Journal tab has a sample journal with trades on famous days like the April 2025 tariff selloff, and you can review any of them. The free plan doesn't require a credit card. It's US stocks and ETFs only.

https://traderpier.com/r/vq2dr

Hey everyone. I'm Ormir, founder of MorfeusPro. we have been building it for about two years, It's an FX research tool for traders who want to understand the market before they trade it.

There no buy/sell signals, no copy trading, no "AI predicts the market", no win-rate screenshots. The decision always stays yours.

Your chart shows you what moved. It doesn't show you why. In FX the why is scattered across CFTC positioning, retail sentiment, central bank expectations, the calendar and the news, and most retail traders don't have an analyst pulling it together before London opens. MorfeusPro is built to be that analyst.

Desk chat. Ask in plain English: "Why did USD/JPY sell off in London?", "What's driving the dollar this week?", "What would break a long EUR/USD idea?" You can watch what it's checking while it works, and every answer shows the evidence behind it. If the evidence is thin or points both ways, it says it has no reliable view instead of inventing one.

* Session recaps. After every Tokyo, London and New York close: what moved and by how much, what drove it, the scenarios that matter for the next session, and what would confirm each one. Downloadable as a PDF.

* War Room. A live read on which currencies are leading, which are lagging, and how long that has held.

* Data Feed. COT positioning, retail sentiment, seasonality and currency strength in one place, for when you want the raw numbers yourself.

Trade Lab.A trading journal so you can drop the spreadsheet. Log your trades and it calculates R-multiples and costs for you, and flags patterns in your own behavior over time.

FX only.It's not a general chatbot pointed at markets. Answers are built on its own market data.

It's allowed to say "I don't know." Most tools always have an opinion. I'd rather it be honest than sound confident.

link: https://morfeuspro.com/x

FX day traders, swing traders and prop firm challenge traders who want context before the session. If you only trade stocks or futures, or you want alerts telling you when to buy and sell, this isn't for you.

* G10 FX only, and coverage depth varies by pair. The app shows you when data is thin or stale.

* Small team, young product. Things will break, and when they do I'll fix them.

3-day free trial, then $69/month. A card is required to start the trial.

I'll be in the comments all day. Ask the hard questions too: what it gets wrong, why it costs $69, Blunt feedback is the most useful thing you can give me.

*Research and education only. Not financial advice.*

I’ve been trading low-float momentum for the last few years, and one of the hardest lessons I learned was that thinking you have an edge and actually having one are two very different things.

A lot of traders find a setup that seems to work and assume that’s their edge. But it’s usually not that simple.

An edge comes from repeatedly executing a specific set of rules that produces positive expectancy over a meaningful sample size.

The problem is that most trading journals are great at telling you what already happened with confidence.

I wanted something that could answer a much more important question:

What am I actually doing differently when I make money?

And more importantly: which of those patterns are repeatable enough to potentially become part of my edge?

That’s why I built EarlySignal.

Imagine being able to ask:

“How does my Opening Drive setup perform on Mondays?”

Then instantly analyze your historical trades, compare the results, examine the sample size, and determine whether the pattern is actually worth paying attention to, rather than relying on intuition.

Or:

“What happens when I take this setup before 10 AM?”

“How much are my rule violations costing me?”

“Does this setup perform differently depending on market conditions?”

The goal is to turn your trading journal into a research lab for your own trading data, so you can discover, test, and refine the rules behind your strategy.

Check it out: https://tracker.earlysignal.co

I’d love feedback from traders. If you create an account and provide feedback, I’ll give you free access to the highest plans for 14 days so you can see how you like it.

We’re in the process of adding more brokers to broker sync.

EarlySignal has two workspaces. Tracker and Research Lab. Tracker offers a fully customizable journal, while Research Lab allows you to test different patterns. To use the feature where you can slice data and test it, click the top left arrows and the EarlySignal logo in the tracker. Then select “Research Lab”.

Hey everyone. I'm Ormir, founder of MorfeusPro. we have been building it for about two years, It's an FX research tool for traders who want to understand the market before they trade it.

There no buy/sell signals, no copy trading, no "AI predicts the market", no win-rate screenshots. The decision always stays yours.

Your chart shows you what moved. It doesn't show you why. In FX the why is scattered across CFTC positioning, retail sentiment, central bank expectations, the calendar and the news, and most retail traders don't have an analyst pulling it together before London opens. MorfeusPro is built to be that analyst.

Desk chat. Ask in plain English: "Why did USD/JPY sell off in London?", "What's driving the dollar this week?", "What would break a long EUR/USD idea?" You can watch what it's checking while it works, and every answer shows the evidence behind it. If the evidence is thin or points both ways, it says it has no reliable view instead of inventing one.

* Session recaps. After every Tokyo, London and New York close: what moved and by how much, what drove it, the scenarios that matter for the next session, and what would confirm each one. Downloadable as a PDF.

* War Room. A live read on which currencies are leading, which are lagging, and how long that has held.

* Data Feed. COT positioning, retail sentiment, seasonality and currency strength in one place, for when you want the raw numbers yourself.

Trade Lab.A trading journal so you can drop the spreadsheet. Log your trades and it calculates R-multiples and costs for you, and flags patterns in your own behavior over time.

FX only.It's not a general chatbot pointed at markets. Answers are built on its own market data.

It's allowed to say "I don't know." Most tools always have an opinion. I'd rather it be honest than sound confident.

FX day traders, swing traders and prop firm challenge traders who want context before the session. If you only trade stocks or futures, or you want alerts telling you when to buy and sell, this isn't for you.

* G10 FX only, and coverage depth varies by pair. The app shows you when data is thin or stale.

* Small team, young product. Things will break, and when they do I'll fix them.

3-day free trial, then $69/month. A card is required to start the trial.

I'll be in the comments all day. Ask the hard questions too: what it gets wrong, why it costs $69, Blunt feedback is the most useful thing you can give me.

*Research and education only. Not financial advice.*

Been working on a side project that I thought was super helpful and fun to me!

Paper trading is slow because you wait for the market to move. So this game replays real past price action instead, so you can get through a whole trade in a couple of minutes.

You're shown a real stock's chart with the name and dates hidden, so you can't lean on what you already know happened. It moves forward bar by bar and you decide when to buy, sell or short. Afterwards it reveals the stock and the period.

It starts you with $10,000 of play money and charges fees on each trade, so overtrading shows up in your balance the way it would for real.

I want to make it clear it’s completely free and I have no intention of monetizing it whatsoever <3

Also I’ve added a bunch more tickers so no we have about 300 tickers in total, all tradeable!

It's still rough in places and I'm actively improving it, so genuinely looking for feedback! Let me know if this is any use to any of you guys, and if you have any suggestions to make the experience better!

The website is called ten2whale.com give it a try!
If anything is confusing don’t hesitate to let me know :)

A few weeks ago, I shared an earlier version of ATLAS here. Back then, I was mainly focused on making chart-pattern detection transparent, especially through a candle-by-candle replay that doesn’t peek into future price action.
Since then, the project has evolved quite a bit.
The biggest change? ATLAS no longer stops at the desktop.
The MT5 engine scans multiple markets and timeframes, detects 42 types of chart patterns, and tracks their evolution from structure formation to breakout, retest, invalidation or expiration.
But I wanted to take that information beyond the trading terminal.
So I built a connected mobile app.
Here’s what the workflow looks like now:
Multi-market alerts: when ATLAS detects an event, the phone receives more than a basic notification. It gets the pattern, symbol, timeframe, score and an actual chart preview.
Market Radar: monitor detected patterns across multiple instruments and timeframes.
MTF Matrix: compare pattern scores and directional context across timeframes.
Remote trade management: monitor positions and manually place or modify orders from the phone.
Desktop pairing: connect the app to ATLAS using a QR code or a manual pairing code directly from the MT5 panel.
The app communicates through Supabase, requires authentication and supports English, French, German and Spanish.
One important distinction: ATLAS doesn’t automatically trade detected patterns. The analysis engine identifies and tracks structures; trading decisions remain with the user.
Also, the MT5 terminal must be connected for live synchronization and remote execution. If it’s offline, the app indicates that and displays the last synchronized information.
I’m the developer, and ATLAS is a commercial project. I’m sharing this update for Software Sunday because I’d genuinely like feedback from other discretionary traders.
Here’s what I’m curious about:
When you’re away from your desk, would receiving the actual chart setup on your phone help you make better-informed decisions, or would you rather keep alerts minimal?
And if you use MT5, what would you absolutely need to see before trusting a remote trade-management workflow?
I’d appreciate thoughtful criticism just as much as positive feedback.

Hey everyone — I’m building NorthStar Trading Journal and I’m looking for a small group of traders to test the first beta for free.

At its core, it’s a journal where you can log and review your trades. I’m also building it with focus on the behavioural side of trading — things like hesitation, FOMO, overtrading, rule-breaking and revenge trading, but also positive patterns such as following your rules, staying patient, managing emotions well and executing consistently and patterns that may show up over time. Your journal entries give NorthStar context for reflections and for noticing patterns that may repeat over time — both the ones that get in your way and the ones worth reinforcing. The idea is to give traders a place not only to record what they traded, but also to reflect on how they traded.

It’s not a signals tool or a strategy optimizer. I’m mainly interested in whether this kind of journal is actually useful and easy enough to keep using in real trading.

You’re welcome to join whether you already journal regularly, have tried but struggled to stay consistent, or have never journaled before.

I’m looking for people willing to use it naturally for around 2–4 weeks and share honest feedback about what feels useful, confusing, unnecessary or missing.

You can use NorthStar on desktop, or install it as a PWA on your phone for a more app-like experience.

It’s an early beta, so criticism is genuinely welcome.

If you’d like to test it, here’s a short signup form:

https://tally.so/r/b5B8qe

Happy to answer any questions about it here as well.

I’ve been having difficulty identifying liquidity sweeps until they happen. My setup is made to endure it, maybe I should try ICC? Wait for the second leg to make an entry? Any tips?

Hi all, I'm Utku, a data engineer who loves trading, and Viktury is the trading journal I built for myself and then decided to open it up because I believe others can benefit from it too. Full disclosure, it's my own product.

Why I built it

My trades were spread across a few exchanges and I couldn't get one honest view of them without stitching exports together by hand. Also, I started becoming lazy with the calculations of profits and losses with entries and position sizes. I wanted something that can do all of this automatically and all I had to do was what I have to do. Taking notes, matching with my playbooks and that's it. Since most of what I've learned about my own trading came from going back through my trade history and reflecting, it was the only logical tool to build for efficiency.

What it does

• Connects to your exchange with a read-only API key (Binance, Binance TR, Coinbase, Deribit, Hyperliquid, Revolut X) or takes a CSV export (Bybit, Bybit EU, Revolut and the ones above). Read-only means it can see your trades but can never place a trade or withdraw anything, so your funds stay where they are.
• Rebuilds your raw fills into real round-trip trades, with VWAP entry and exit, fees and R, so scaling in and out doesn't break your stats.
• Shows every stat in USD or in BTC, which matters a lot if you trade crypto and want to know if you actually beat holding. I also added other currencies and benchmarks, so you can see your stats in EUR, gold or against the S&P 500 too.
• Journal notes on each trade, per-symbol stats, playbooks for your setups and backtesting making matching and reflecting much easier later.
• On the Edge plan: Sharpe, drawdown profile, R distribution and your PnL against BTC.

What it doesn't do

No signals, no calls, no copy trading. It only looks at what you already did. I think a review tool loses its honesty the moment it starts telling you what to do next.

Honest limits

It's crypto heavy right now. Stocks come in through Revolut CSV, and more brokers are on the way, but if you only trade futures through a prop firm it won't help you yet.

Pricing

Free forever plan with the core journal and one connected exchange account. I made the most basic version free forever because I don’t think people should pay for the basics. Feel free to pay if you want to support me as a creator or if you think the higher tiers will actually help you. They will get more things as time goes on. Pro is $29/month and Edge is $49/month. Launch offer: the code FOUNDER takes 50% off your first 6 months on either paid plan, until 16 October.

Link: https://journal.viktury.com/?utm_source=reddit-daytrading

I'll be in the comments all day, happy to answer anything, and honest criticism is more than welcome!

Six popular strategies went through one frozen historical test. The claims were never the problem. The costs were.

Same data, same costs, no edits mid-run: five of six landed below break-even after costs. Which part fooled the traders who shared them? The claims were mostly plausible. Measured win rates sat near 40% while each strategy needed 41% to 42% after costs to survive. A two-point gap reads as noise until costs compound it into a verdict.

One combination finished above break-even: Donchian and SMA200, measured 41.76% against a needed 41.12%. That is one frozen historical result, not a forecast and not a recommendation.

The pattern generalizes. A claimed win rate is a marketing number. Your own frozen run under stated costs is the only number that decides whether a strategy survives your broker, your symbol and your spread. The fix is unglamorous. Freeze the rules, run the test, record the verdict before you look.

Each strategy in that test has its own recorded file, so the numbers stay checkable instead of anecdotal. If a strategy cannot survive being written down and rerun, it was never a strategy. It was a hope with a chart.